paulisi wrote:

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Nice result, kind draw and good news for Andy as he will be closing right in on the top 1000 and avoiding qualifying soon.

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His R2 draw could have been a bit kinder. But he certainly seems to be playing consistently well at the moment.

Oakland2002 wrote:

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Andy B is doing well, I presume he has binned his last year of eligibility at Boise? he'd probably already got optimal benefit from a tennis perspective as he was doing very well in the mountain west even as a freshman.

I really like it when at ITF level young players get a run if games against a mature player, probably at the peak of their career, particularly when you see such improvement. As Steven has pointed out he won 1 game 2 weeks ago, 7 games last week.

Is there a win ratio that is a sound indicator that it's time to move up or out, the metrics seem pretty simple in the ITF ie win a 2-3 tournaments back to back and you should really be playing futures, but in College tennis if you are making the team, dominating your own conference and progressing through divisionals the level played in the following years are going to be the same old same old with a bit of local ITF (difficult to find in Idaho)

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Andy's doing very well but I'm not completely sure that the better score against Jankovits shows that Andy was playing better, or improved.. A match always has two sides. Jankovits had won the singles the week before and, in R1, had - by all accounts - a really hard match against Escoffier (5-7 6-3 6-4). So he was supposedly pretty tired when he played Bettles in R2. Of course, he then went on to win the title last week too. So maybe he's even more tired now ! Not saying that Andy didn't play better, of course, just that it's not a given.